ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,045, issued on July 1, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"3D captions with semantic graphical elements" was invented by Kyle Goodrich (Venice, Calif.), Samuel Edward Hare (Los Angeles), Maxim Maximov Lazarov (Culver City, Calif.), Tony Mathew (Irvine, Calif.), Andrew James McPhee (Culver City, Calif.), Daniel Moreno (New York) and Wentao Shang (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program and method for performing operations comprising: receiving, by a messaging application, a video feed from a ca...